Crows play a huge part in our own popular culture, from Edgar Allen Poes The Raven (steve, that's not a crow...but is the same family says I...with the magpie I believe) to the crows attacking people in The Birds, Hitchcock's movie. Its even bled into my C&C game, in the world of Aihrde Hekki is the god of the underworld and takes the guise of a crow. Mac's character is a steward of Hekki, able to transform into a crow.